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Top of the Pops hosts now - sex scandal, game show death and cancer conspiracy

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READ MORE: Where BBC Watchdog hosts are now - feud rumours, co-star romance and tragic deathOf course, there have also been some presenters the BBC would rather forget, including Jimmy Savile, Gary Glitter and Rolf Harris.Daily Star takes a look back at what the presenters have been up to after the show ended.TOTP and BBC radio presenter Janice Long was the first woman to regularly host the programme, as well as the first woman to have her own daily show on BBC Radio 1.She sadly died on Christmas Day in 2021 at the age of 66, following a short illness.A statement released upon her death confirmed: “Janice was a wonderful, warm human being and exceptional broadcaster."She told a brilliant story and always made you roar with laughter with her sharp wit.

She will leave behind her husband Paul and two children, who she thought the world of.“Janice wanted it known she was so thankful to the NHS and all who looked after her there.”Original presenter Alan Freeman also died in 2006, the same year TOTP was cancelled - he suffered from arthritis during his lifetime, with various co-stars and DJs attending his funeral.He had been living in Brinsworth House, a retirement home reserved for actors and other entertainers, while battling arthritis and asthma from smoking 60 cigarettes a day.He was 79 when he died.Jimmy Savile, one of Britain’s most prolific sex offenders, presented Top of the Pops for much of his career, before being found dead at his Leeds flat in 2011.Though there had been allegations about Savile throughout his lifetime, it was Operation Yewtree in 2012 which eventually saw the full extent of his crimes exposed, with a total of 450 alleged victims contacting the police in just 10 weeks.Thirty-one of those allegations.

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